Topic 1 More about Colour

Topic Objectives
Mixed ink swatches
Creating a mixed ink group
Editing mixed ink swatches
Saving swatches to use in other documents
Importing swatches
Tints

Copying fill and stroke attributes of objects
Sampling colours from graphics
Dragging and dropping colours
The Ink Manager
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Topic 2 More about Styles

Topic Objective
Next style
The Based On option
Applying character styles to a drop cap
Applying nested styles
Looping through nested styles

Using Quick Apply to apply styles
Applying styles to multiple paragraphs
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Topic 3 Object Styles

Topic Objectives
About object styles
The Object Styles panel
Defining object styles
Using object style categories
Applying object styles
The default object styles
Editing or renaming object styles
Duplicating object styles

Deleting object styles
Clearing overrides from object styles
Clearing attributes not set in an object style
Breaking the link to an object style
Redefining an object style
Importing object styles
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Topic 4 Creating Structured Documents

Parent and child master pages
Create Guides command
Snap to
Using frames when designing pages
Setting frame fitting options
Pages and spreads
Targeting and selecting
Creating multiple-page spreads

Adding pages to a document
Moving and arranging pages
Duplicating a page or spread
Deleting a page or spread
Page Numbering and Section Options
Adding story jump-lines
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Topic 5 Transforming Objects

Topic Objectives
The point of origin when transforming
Transforming objects
Allowing for stroke weight when measuring objects
Rotating objects
Scaling objects
Reflecting objects
Shearing objects

The Free Transform tool
Repeating transformations
Clearing transformations
Duplicating objects
Locking an object’s position
Step and repeat
Aligning objects
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Topic 6 Text Controls

Topic Objectives
The Find/Change command
Tips for Finding/Changing text
Finding and changing objects
Find/change using queries
The Find Font command

The Check Spelling command
Automatically correcting spelling
Using dynamic spelling
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Topic 7 Combining Text and Graphics

Topic Objectives
Anchored objects
Creating an anchored object
Anchored Objects options
Inline and Above Line options

Custom anchored object options
Positioning a custom-positioned anchored object
Viewing anchored object markers
Releasing an anchored object

Topic 8 Type Composition

Topic Objectives
Paragraph composition
Hyphenation and justification
Avoiding word breaks
Controlling spacing in justified text
Flush space
Using the Eyedropper tool with type
Paragraph Rules
Keep options
Optical Margin Alignment

The Indent to Here character
Tabs
Adjusting underline options
Baseline and document grids
Setting baseline grids for text frames
Setting up the document grid
Snapping objects to the document grid
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Topic 9 Bullets and Numbering

Topic Objectives
About bulleted or numbered lists
Creating a bulleted or numbered list
Formatting a bulleted or numbered list
Changing bullet characters
Changing numbered list options
Working with lists
Creating a paragraph style for running lists
Creating multi-level lists
Restarting or continuing numbering for a list

Continuing a list from the previous or current story
Numbering a list from the previous or current document in a book
Converting list bullets or numbers to text
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Topic 10 Object Libraries

Topic Objectives
What are object libraries?
Creating and using object libraries
Managing Object Libraries

Searching Object Libraries
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Topic 11 Working with Tables

Topic Objectives
Features of tables
Creating a table from scratch
Converting existing text into a table
Changing a table into normal text
Importing Microsoft Office tables
Embedding a table inside another table
Adding text or graphics to a table
Navigating in a table
Selecting cells
Inserting rows and columns
Deleting rows and columns
Merging cells
Table headers and footers
Resizing tables
Overset cells
Applying a border to a table

Adding stroke and fill colour to cells
Table and cell styles
Defining table and cell styles
Formatting precedence in styles
Applying table and cell styles
Importing table styles from other documents
Editing table and cell styles
Basing one table or cell style on another
Deleting table and cell styles
Redefining table or cell styles based on current formatting
Overriding table and cell styles
Breaking the link to table or cell styles
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Topic 12 Vector Elements

Topic Objectives
The Stroke panel
Start and end shapes
Customizing stroke styles
Corner effects
Compound paths

The Pathfinder panel
Changing the shape of a path
Converting text to outlines
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Topic 13 Books and Tables of Contents

Topic Objectives
Creating Books
Adding documents to a book
Removing a document from a book
Opening and saving book files
Outputting a book file
Synchronizing book documents
Setting a style source
Book page numbering
Converting book files from previous versions
Tables of Contents

Creating table of contents styles
Saving TOC styles
Creating tab leaders for TOC entries
Creating a table of contents
Table of contents formatting options
Modifying and updating a table of contents
Tables of contents in books
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Topic 14 Output Options

Topic Objectives
Exporting text
About PostScript files
Exporting device-independent

PostScript files
Print Presets
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Appendix A: Index